I WOULD love Saturn to get into the Copper Horse Stakes but I think, in Irish terms, he’s 15th on the ballot. There’s a good few double-entered though, and obviously some of them will probably be entered as well in the Duke of Edinburgh. So, we’ll sit and wait on Sunday to see which race he gets into. But he only needs one to come out of the Ascot Stakes. Mum definitely feels that the further he goes, the better he could be, but it’s a big step up from a mile and six [furlongs] to two and a half [miles].
He was good on his seasonal reappearance when winning at Navan, and then he dropped back to a mile and a half at Cork, when they went quite a slow pace. It didn’t really suit him, and it turned into a little bit of a sprint. So, we freshened him up with Ascot in mind, as we know he runs very well fresh.
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